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PENGUIN CLASSICS MOBY-DICK ENGLISH EDITION - ...

Herman Melville's masterpiece  one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Over a century
and a half after its publication  Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic.
It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as
vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure 
more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend  Moby-Dick is a haunting  mesmerizing  and
important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring
characters in literature. Never losing its cultural prescence  Melville's nautical epic has
inspired many films over the years  including the film adaptation of Nathanael Philbrick's In
the Heart of the Sea  starring Chris Hemsworth  Cillian Murphy  Ben Wishaw  and Brendan Gleeson
and directed by Ron Howard. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor  Moby-Dick is a profound
and timeless inquiry into character  faith  and the nature of perception. This Penguin Classics
edition  featuring an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and notes by Tom Quirk  prints the
Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's text  approved by the Center for Scholarly Editions
and the Center for Editions of American Authors of the MLA. For more than seventy years 
Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
With more than 1 700 titles  Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works
throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide
authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and
contemporary authors  as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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